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What Prevents Expats From Working Overseas?

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Guest post by Louise Wiles Accompanying partners – do they or circumstance influence their career choices? Recently I was talking about the services that I offer to accompanying partners through Success Abroad Coaching with some friends ‘back home’. I was explaining that finding fulfilling and meaningful work whilst abroad can be quite a challenge for many partners. Friends turned to look at me in surprise and one said: “Not working is an issue? I’d love to not have to work, to have some time …

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10 “Bests” for Expats

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Everybody loves lists, and expats (and future expats) are no exception. Here I've pulled together a list of ten "best of ____" for expats. Some of them are silly and some are serious. Enjoy! Best Expat Banks, a list of banks that do well by expats, based on home-country currency Best Expat Jobs in France shows a list of jobs available for English-speaking expats there 10 Friendliest Expats Cities. It's easy to find lists of the "best" cities for infrastructure, economy and other "hard" …

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10 Steps to The Global You

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Dedicated to "future Global Managers," The Global You by Susan Bloch and Philip Whiteley sets out ten strategies for achieving success as a working expat. The book is aimed at the expat who works for a company that sends him on an overseas assignment, but there are lessons which expats by choice can learn to become more effective entrepeneurs overseas as well. The authors point out in the introduction that: "Even if you want to work for a "national" company, that option is rapidly …

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Profitable Blogging

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Let's face it, you don't make money just by blogging. But there are lots of profitable bloggers, and some of them are very, very profitable. Gazillionaire profitable. They do it by using the blog to sell something. As I wrote recently, There are basically three ways to make money from a blog: Sell your own product Sell your own service Sell someone else’s product or service If you want to live the untethered expat life through a blog, you'll most likely start, as I did, by selling …

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Panama Hits the Sweet Spot for Life and Business

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If you plan to start a business overseas -- and most of you indicated you'll have to generate some income to finance your overseas lifestyle -- Panama is the country to look at. According to Kathleen Peddicord, publisher of the Overseas Retirement Letter, the country's friendliness to business is why she and her real estate developer husband moved from Paris to Panama two years ago. Kathleen explains: In the past few months, since my How to Retire Overseas book was published, I've been …

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Support Yourself Anywhere With a Website or Blog

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In recent months, we’ve explored writing, photography, art, running a B&B, teaching English as a foreign language and other options for supporting yourself anywhere in the world. Some – running a B&B and teaching – require you to be in a specific place. Others – writing and photography – allow you to move around and get paid almost anywhere. Another location-independent avenue for creating income is by establishing an online business represented by a website or blog. The good news is, …

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